Frost history / Santa Barbara, CA
Santa Barbara, CA: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00047902, 1951 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 16 ft, 34.417, -119.684. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Feb 11 | Dec 18 |
| Earliest | Jan 2 (1960) | Oct 2 (1993) |
| Latest | Apr 28 (1970) | Dec 29 (1988) |
| Trend | little change (less than half a day per decade) | 0.6 days earlier per decade |
| Years with data | 62, 48 with no freeze | 60, 49 with no freeze |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 3 and the median first fall date is Dec 26.
The trend is a straight-line fit through the years with a freeze. A positive spring trend means the last frost now comes later. Short or patchy records give noisy trends.
Chart
Last spring frost (32°F)
First fall frost (32°F)
Dots are single years. The gray line is the median, the green line the fitted trend.
Year by year
| Year | Last spring 32°F | First fall 32°F | Last spring 28°F | First fall 28°F |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | none | none | none | none |
| 2024 | none | none | none | none |
| 2023 | none | none | none | none |
| 2022 | none | none | none | none |
| 2021 | none | none | none | none |
| 2020 | none | none | none | none |
| 2019 | none | none | none | none |
| 2018 | none | none | none | none |
| 2017 | none | none | none | none |
| 2016 | none | none | none | none |
| 2015 | none | no data | none | no data |
| 2014 | none | none | none | none |
| 2013 | none | no data | none | no data |
| 2012 | none | none | none | none |
| 2011 | none | none | none | none |
| 2007 | Jan 18 | no data | Jan 18 | no data |
| 2006 | none | no data | none | no data |
| 2005 | none | none | none | none |
| 2004 | none | none | none | none |
| 2003 | none | none | none | none |
| 2002 | none | none | none | none |
| 2001 | none | none | none | none |
| 2000 | none | none | none | none |
| 1999 | none | none | none | none |
| 1998 | none | none | none | none |
| 1997 | none | none | none | none |
| 1996 | none | none | none | none |
| 1995 | none | none | none | none |
| 1994 | none | none | none | none |
| 1993 | Feb 18 | Oct 2 | Feb 18 | none |
| 1991 | no data | none | no data | none |
| 1990 | no data | Dec 22 | no data | Dec 22 |
| 1989 | Feb 6 | no data | none | no data |
| 1988 | none | Dec 29 | none | none |
| 1987 | Mar 5 | Dec 29 | none | Dec 29 |
| 1986 | none | none | none | none |
| 1985 | none | none | none | none |
| 1984 | no data | Dec 28 | no data | none |
| 1983 | none | none | none | none |
| 1982 | no data | none | no data | none |
| 1980 | none | no data | none | no data |
| 1977 | none | none | none | none |
| 1976 | none | none | none | none |
| 1975 | none | no data | none | no data |
| 1974 | no data | none | no data | none |
| 1973 | no data | none | no data | none |
| 1972 | Jan 8 | no data | none | no data |
| 1971 | none | Dec 18 | none | none |
| 1970 | Apr 28 | none | none | none |
| 1969 | none | none | none | none |
| 1968 | none | Dec 21 | none | none |
| 1967 | none | Dec 13 | none | none |
| 1966 | none | none | none | none |
| 1965 | none | none | none | none |
| 1964 | none | none | none | none |
| 1963 | Jan 13 | none | none | none |
| 1962 | Feb 28 | none | none | none |
| 1961 | none | none | none | none |
| 1960 | Jan 2 | none | none | none |
| 1959 | none | none | none | none |
| 1958 | none | Nov 17 | none | none |
| 1957 | Jan 28 | none | none | none |
| 1956 | Feb 17 | Dec 9 | none | none |
| 1955 | none | none | none | none |
| 1954 | none | none | none | none |
| 1953 | Mar 3 | none | none | none |
| 1952 | Jan 10 | none | none | none |
| 1951 | Mar 3 | Dec 9 | none | none |
"none" means the station recorded no freeze at that threshold in that half of the year. "no data" means more than 10% of the season's daily readings were missing. Years with no usable data are left out. See the methodology for the rules, and the ZIP lookup for 1991 to 2020 frost probabilities.